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Moses Empowerments
Moses the Prophet Empowerment
Burning Bush Empowerment
Moses the Leader Empowerment
Passover Empowerment
Moses Staff Empowerment
Parting of the Red Sea Empowerment
Ten Commandments Empowerment
Brazen Serpent Empowerment

Alasdair Bothwell Gordon

2015

Alasdair Bothwell Gordon

EdD, DMin, FWGMSC, RGMT, RH (WMA), MPWR.
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Moses has been referred to as the greatest of all the prophets.

The Old Testament prophets were not so much people who
foretold the future but who spoke a contemporary message from
God. Moses was born during the time when the Hebrews (or
Israelites) were slaves in Egypt. When Pharaoh ordered all
newborn Hebrew boys to be killed to prevent the race from
multiplying, Moses mother hid him in a basket, made of
bulrushes, and floated in on to the River Nile. Pharoahs
daughter found the child and he ended up being adopted into the
Egyptian royal family.

After Moses had reached adulthood, he saw an Egyptian beating

a Hebrew. He killed the Egyptian and buried the body in the
sand. Moses soon discovered that this matter was known to
Pharaoh who was likely to put him to death. Moses fled over the
Sinai Peninsula. He stopped at a well, where he protected seven
shepherdesses against some coarse ruffians. The shepherdesses'
father Jethro, a priest of Midian, was grateful for this
protection. He gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage,
and put him in charge of his herds. Moses stayed there for
forty years, following the occupation of a shepherd.

One day, Moses led his flock to Mount Horeb. There he saw a
bush that was burning yet was not consumed. When he turned
aside to look more closely at this miracle, God spoke to him from
the bush. (The emblem of the protestant Church of Scotland is
the Burning Bush)

God told Moses to go back to Egypt and take his people out of
slavery. Moses and his brother Aaron went to Pharaoh and told
him that the Lord God of Israel wanted him to permit the
Israelites to celebrate a feast in the wilderness. Pharaoh replied
that he did not know their God and would not allow them to
celebrate this feast. Pharaoh spoke harshly to Moses and Aaron

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and, vindictively, ordered the Hebrew slaves to make bricks

without straw.

Moses and Aaron gained a second hearing with Pharaoh and

changed Moses' rod into a serpent. Pharaoh's magicians promptly
did the same with their rods. Moses and Aaron had a third
opportunity when they went to meet the Pharaoh at the banks of
the river Nile. Moses told Aaron to turn the river to blood, but
Pharaoh's magicians could do the same. Moses obtained a fourth
meeting, and had Aaron bring frogs from the Nile to overrun
Egypt. Yet again, Pharaoh's magicians were able to do the same
thing. Pharaoh was irritated by the frogs and asked Moses to
remove them. He promised to let the Israelites go and observe
their feast in the wilderness in return. The next day all the
frogs died leaving a dreadful stench and an enormous mess. As a
result, Pharaoh was angry and decided not to let the Israelites
leave after all.

However, eventually Pharaoh did let the Hebrews depart but only
after God had sent a total of ten plagues upon the Egyptians,
including lice, gnats, flies, wild beasts, boils, hail, thunder,
locusts and darkness. The tenth plague was the death of the
Egyptian male first-born. The Egyptians were terrified and
ordered the Hebrews to leave. This is the event now known as
the Exodus (way out). The events surrounding it are
commemorated to this day as the Feast of the Passover,
referring to how the plague "passed over" the houses of the
Israelites whilst inflicting the Egyptians.

Moses led his people eastward, beginning the long journey to

Canaan, the same land that had been promised many years
earlier to Abraham and his descendents. God led them with a
pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Pharaoh,
meantime, had a change of heart and pursued them with a large
army. Finding themselves in between this army and the sea, the

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Israelites despaired, but the Book of Exodus records that God

divided the waters so that they passed safely across on dry
ground. When the Egyptian army attempted to follow, God
permitted the waters to return upon them and they all drowned.

When the Hebrews arrived at Marah, the water tasted bitter

and there were complaints. Moses threw a tree into the water
and the water became sweet. Later in the journey the people
ran low on food supplies and again murmured against Moses and
Aaron, claiming that they would have preferred to die in Egypt.
God's gave food by providing manna. Later, when the Hebrews
camped in Rephidim, there was no water, so they complained
again. Moses struck a rock with his staff and water sprang
forth.

Amalekite raiders attacked the Israelites. In response, Moses

commanded Joshua to lead the men to battle while he stood on a
hill with the rod of God in his hand. As long as Moses held the
rod up, Israel dominated the fighting, but if Moses let down his
hands, the tide of the battle turned in favour of the
Amalekites. Because Moses was getting tired, Aaron held up one
of his arms and Hur held up the other arm. The Israelites
prevailed against the Amalekites.

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When the Israelites came to Sinai, they pitched camp near the
mountain. Moses commanded the people not to touch the
mountain. He then went up into the mountain to speak with God.
While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Israelites got tired of
waiting. They went to Aaron and asked him to make gods for
them. After Aaron had received golden earrings from the
people, he constructed a golden calf for the people to worship.
When Moses came down from the mountain, he destroyed the
calf and rebuked Aaron for the sin he had brought upon the
people.

All the sons of Levi rallied around Moses. Levi was the third son
of Leah and Jacob and the founder of the Levite tribe of
ancient Israel. The Levites were the only one of the Israelite
tribes who received cities but no tribal land when Joshua
eventually led the Israelites into the land of Canaan.

When Moses came down from the mountain, he brought with him
the Ten Commandments, still observed in spirit by millions of
Jews and Christians and respected by countless others. They
could be summed up as follows:
1. Worship God only
2. Do not make images of God
3. Do not use Gods name for evil purposes
4. Keep the seventh day as a day of rest
5. Respect your father and mother
6. Do not murder
7. Do not commit adultery
8. Do not steal
9. Do not accuse others falsely
10. Do not covet what does not belong to you.

If these commandments were to be summed up in one word that

would probably be respect for God, for others, for their
property and relationships.

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Following this the Tabernacle was constructed, the priestly law

ordained, the plan of the camp arranged both for the Levites
and the non-priestly tribes, and the Tabernacle consecrated.
On one occasion when the people had been bitten by poisonous
snakes, Moses held up a brass serpent on a pole and those who
looked on it were healed
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Moses sent twelve spies into Canaan as scouts, including most
famously Caleb and Joshua. After forty days, they returned to
the Israelite camp, bringing back grapes and other produce as
samples of the fertility of the region. Although all the spies
agreed that the land's resources were spectacular, only two of
the twelve spies (Joshua and Caleb) were willing to try to
conquer it, as it was a land populated by giants. Joshua and
Caleb were nearly stoned for their unpopular opinion. The people
wept and, even at this stage, wanted to return to Egypt. Moses
told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty
years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to
enter Canaan had died. Their children would then enter and
possess Canaan.

Moses died at the age of 120, having first appointed Joshua,

son of Nun, to succeed him as the leader of the Israelites.
Neither Moses nor his brother Aaron lived to enter the Promised
Land.

In the Christian tradition, Moses (who is mentioned more often

in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure) is
seen a symbol of God's Law, as expounded upon in the teachings
of Jesus. New Testament writers often made favourable
comparison between the words and deeds of Jesus with those of
Moses.

Moses also figures in Jesus' own teachings. When he met the

Pharisee Nicodemus at night, he compares Moses' lifting up of

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the bronze serpent in the wilderness, which any Israelite could

look upon and be healed, to his own impending lifting up (on a
Cross).

Moses is present in all three Gospel accounts of the

Transfiguration. Later Christians have found numerous other
parallels between the life of Moses and Jesus to the extent that
Jesus was likened to a "second Moses." For example, Jesus'
escape from the slaughter by Herod in Bethlehem of male
children (The Holy Innocents) has been compared to Moses'
escape from Pharaoh's slaying of Hebrew infants.

In the Koran the life of Moses is commented on considerably.

The Koran and the Bible are similar on the basic outline of
Moses' life.

These Empowerments are of a reflective, inspirational and self-

empowering nature. They do not constitute medical or
psychological treatment and should be used with common sense.
My Old Testament Empowerments are inspired by but do not
form part of the 303 Initiations of Dr. Joshua David Stone.

Alasdair Bothwell Gordon

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Lightarian Facilitator
Certified Chios Master Teacher

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Appendix I Old Testament Empowerments

Abrahamic Empowerments
Antediluvian Empowerments
Daniel Empowerments
Elijah Empowerments
Ezekiel Empowerments
Ezra and Nehemiah Empowerments
Isaiah Empowerments
Jacob Empowerments
Jeremiah Empowerments
Job Empowerments
Jonah Empowerments
Joseph (OT) Empowerments
Joshua Empowerments
Judges Empowerments
Minor Prophets Empowerments 1-4
Moses Empowerments
Ruth and Esther Empowerments
Saul and David Empowerments
Solomon Empowerments

Alasdair Bothwell Gordon

EdD, DMin, FWGMSC, RGMT, RH (WMA), MPWR.